Dailies

I hit a bit of a funk in terms of art recently (as you might have been able to tell from the lack of posts ), so I’ve started doing some hourlies again to try and break through it. And so far it’s working out quite well.

Technically these aren’t hourlies anymore (a practice where you describe what happened each hour you were awake.), but more like what I like to call ‘dailies’ – a little summary of that day. Not every day is as interesting ofcourse, so I usually just pick days that were themselves noteworthy in some way. Here’s a couple that were lingering in my sketchbook:

And the corresponding Flickr album.

Turning the page

The other day I was on my way to a meeting with our programmers at the TU in Delft. My train was approaching Rotterdam station. It was early and I had overslept, so I was travelling on autopilot.

When my train came to a halt, I disembarked and descended the stairs into the hallway, looking for some sort of signage to indicate which train I had to get on next.

Upon reaching the bottom, I found myself in a long concrete hallway with a low ceiling.
Memories engulfed me like a warm bath. Suddenly, I was no longer here. I was no longer now. I was back then.
The only other time I had been at Rotterdam station.

Then, it had marked the start of something beautiful.
But back here, in the now, I found myself at the other end of that chapter.
So much had happened in between.

And I wished so much I could be there again.

I found the signage. Track 5. The 11:05 to Delft station.
It was 10:59.

No time to waste.